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Nancy Ng
Issue date: 9/9/05 Section: News
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Among the many changes that returning students have discovered on campus this semester are changes made to the meal plan. For some students, however, these changes are more than not being able to swipe their 'Gate Card twice during one meal period.
A requirement for the residents of Bunche and Creative Arts House (CAH), the College House Dining Plan this year entitles students to five cooked meals a week, the services of their own cook and use of the kitchen's facilities, but with one major difference: there is no pantry.
"The pantry stored cereals, tea, snacks, frozen dinners - food we'd need for the meals outside of the five dinners we get Monday through Friday," junior CAH resident Rachel Vining said.
Because the loss of the pantry necessitates residents procuring their additional meals at personal expense, residents of CAH hold legitimate concerns about what this change to the meal plan will hold for them.
"I'm going to be traveling abroad this semester," Vining said. "I worked and saved over the summer so I could pay for that. I have very little funds left for anything else."
Fellow junior CAH resident Sun Robinson also expressed anxiety over the unexpected additional financial burden.
"I was not anticipating that I would have to pay for food," Robinson said, "especially when part of the lump sum I paid before the beginning of the semester already went towards paying for my meal plan."
The bone of contention shared by these students is that they were not informed of this vital change.
"After we talked with last year's residents, who met with Residential Education to discuss the meal plan, we were under the impression that it would basically stay the same," senior CAH resident Bickey Rimal said. "We had to find the empty pantry by ourselves when we moved into the house. I don't think that anyone intended to tell us. It's like they were trying to trick us."
Residents of CAH are also worried that this change will adversely affect the number of applicants interested in living in the house.
A requirement for the residents of Bunche and Creative Arts House (CAH), the College House Dining Plan this year entitles students to five cooked meals a week, the services of their own cook and use of the kitchen's facilities, but with one major difference: there is no pantry.
"The pantry stored cereals, tea, snacks, frozen dinners - food we'd need for the meals outside of the five dinners we get Monday through Friday," junior CAH resident Rachel Vining said.
Because the loss of the pantry necessitates residents procuring their additional meals at personal expense, residents of CAH hold legitimate concerns about what this change to the meal plan will hold for them.
"I'm going to be traveling abroad this semester," Vining said. "I worked and saved over the summer so I could pay for that. I have very little funds left for anything else."
Fellow junior CAH resident Sun Robinson also expressed anxiety over the unexpected additional financial burden.
"I was not anticipating that I would have to pay for food," Robinson said, "especially when part of the lump sum I paid before the beginning of the semester already went towards paying for my meal plan."
The bone of contention shared by these students is that they were not informed of this vital change.
"After we talked with last year's residents, who met with Residential Education to discuss the meal plan, we were under the impression that it would basically stay the same," senior CAH resident Bickey Rimal said. "We had to find the empty pantry by ourselves when we moved into the house. I don't think that anyone intended to tell us. It's like they were trying to trick us."
Residents of CAH are also worried that this change will adversely affect the number of applicants interested in living in the house.